The following are notes from our Februray 22 YDSN meeting regarding existing or potential CoP groups and activities.
Melbourne Girls College
Karen Money
Involved with the City Edge Network focussing on Leadership
Charles LaTrobe P-12 College
Anna Rigoni
Ashley Daniel
P-6 current focus on Building Practice Excellence also a focus for P-12 on Data Literacy
Pavillion School would like to engage more with mainstream schools to focus on social/emotional development
Princes Hill Secondary College
Trevor Smith

Reservoir High School
Mark Jessup

Distance Education Centre Victoria
Bretton New
Current PDP focus on Virtual Classrooms. Involved with a statewide CoP with the online learning community focussed on QA Frameworks
Richmond High School
Colin Simpson
Focus on setting up the school with a current focus on establishing CoP activity with feeder primary schools
Northern College of Arts & Technology
Raffaela Galati-Brown

This Group held a consensus that there was a potential to focus CoP activity on Data Literacy



William Ruthven Secondary College
Judi Bennie

Collingwood College
Dale Perichon
2017 Involvement - Senior school program provision with Fitzroy HS
Lynall Hall Community School
Mary Barclay

Northcote High School
Kate Morris

Fitzroy High School
Pauline Rice
2017 Involvement - Senior school program provision with Collingwood College. Also work with other schools in Victoria and the Mitchell Institute on Entrepreneurial Education.
Baltara
Nancy Sidoti

Thornbury High School
Michael Keenan

Richmond High School
Colin Simpson



Preston South Primary School
Leon Leonidas

Yarra Primary School
Tracy Hammill

Fitzroy Primary School
Julie Rothman

Preston Primary School
Janet Paterson

Northern School of Autism
Pamela Matheson

Fitzroy North Primary School
Anne Thorp


Richmond Primary School
Dean Banova
Priority areas include STEM and Spelling. There has been some network involvement with
a group of five schools looking at Coding.
Richmond West Primary School
Paul Ledwidge
Bilingual Mandarin program
Abbotsford Primary School
Latham Burns
Bilingual Mandarin Program involved with the Victorian Schools Bilingual Network
Newlands Primary School
Ross Dudgeon
Bilingual Spanish program
William Ruthven Primary School
Allan Waterson
2017 Involvement - Powerful Learning Initiative with Darebin and Banyule Network schools including involvement in 2 CoP's Powerful Learning ( Reservoir PS, Reservoir West, Reservoir Views & Kingsbury PS) & Berry Street Education Model ( Reservoir East PS, Kingsbury PS, Reservoir Views PS)
Bell Primary School
Marg Sneddon

Victorian School of Languages
Frank Merlino

Collingwood English Language School
Laima Novackis


Westgarth Primary School
Jo Wheeler
2017 involvement - Curiosity and Powerful Learning with Fairfield PS, Northcote PS, Preston North East PS, Preston West PS
Fairfield Primary School
Allana Bryant
2017 involvement - Curiosity and Powerful Learning with Northcote PS, Preston North East PS, Preston West PS, Reservoir East PS, Westgarth PS
Northcote Primary School
Kerrie Williams
2017 involvement - Curiosity and Powerful Learning with Fairfield PS, Westgarth PS, Preston North East PS, Preston West PS
Reservoir East Primary School
James Cumming
2017 Involvement - Berry Street Education Model (William Ruthven PS, Kingsbury PS, Reservoir Views PS)Curiosity and Powerful Learning with Fairfield PS, Northcote PS, Preston North East PS, Preston West PS, Fairfield PS, Westgarth PS
Preston West Primary School
Cheryl Bondeson
Strength - Building Leadership Capacity
AIP Priorities -
Merri Creek Primary School
Kerri Gibson

Clifton Hill Primary School
Geoff Warren, Megan Smith

Princes Hill Primary School
Keith Mcneill
2017 involvement New Pedagogies for Deep Learning, Modern Learners

Spensley Street Primary School
Anne Nelson

Alphington Primary School
Melissa Mackenzie

Penders Grove Primary School
Douglas Lunt

Preston North East Primary School
Phillip Banks

Thornbury Primary School
Leon Bell

Carlton North Primary School
Rachel Corben


Wales Street Primary School
Christian Woodcock

Reservoir Primary School
Helen Miller

Reservoir Views Primary School
Karen Rush
2017 Involvement - Berry Street Education Model (William Ruthven PS, Kingsbury PS, Reservoir East PS)
Reservoir West Primary School
Bruce Kearney

Kingsbury Primary School
Christine Campbell

Croxton Special School
Bev Fagen